Hot Chocolate – Recipe Marathon – Day 14

Chocolate is soul food for me, chocolate is the most delicious thing on earth. There is no equivalent to the experience of placing a perfectly shiny piece of chocolate on your tongue, letting it melt slowly in your mouth till it goes all around and then chewing it when it becomes too irresistible. I love [...]

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Mor Kootu – Recipe Marathon – Day 13

Mor Kootu is a yogurt based gravy that is often used with a few vegetables – cabbage, ash gourd, taro, cucumber and vazha tandu (stem of the plantain). It’s not a raita, its not a Mor Kozhambu, or an avial. It has a distinct taste and personality of its own. Although I am not really [...]

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Varuthu Araitha Kootu – a basic recipe – Recipe Marathon – Day 12

Vegetables simmered in a midly flavoured gravy which is usually lentil based is perhaps the closest I can get to describing what a Kootu is. Kootus are the goodness of vegetables with the best combination and right proportion of spices that don’t attack your taste buds with the sourness of a sambar. Kootus come in [...]

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White Chocolate Truffles – Recipe Marathon – Day 11

How incredibly absent minded can a person get? Today I skipped keeping the rice in the cooker and went ahead and religiously let the steam build and pressure drop only to discover that the rice pan was missing inside. It took me another 20 minutes to figure where I’d kept the rice – washed and [...]

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Eggplant (Brinjal/Aubergine) – Roasted Wafers – Recipe Marathon Day 10

I was allowed a lot of liberties as a child – like scribbling on the wall. Each time I learnt a new alphabet or number in my pre school, the first thing I’d do after coming home was to rush to my wall and scribble it out nice and big for everyone to see how [...]

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How to cook Pasta “Al Dente”? – Recipe Marathon – Day 9

If boiling water and preparing tea don’t count, then you can say pasta is my first ever kitchen experiment. In fact it was the only other dish (apart from stuffed baked potatoes) that I’d prepare on my own almost everyday as an evening snack when I was in college. Yes, you heard it right – [...]

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